Geocaching!

Several days after we arrived in Michigan, I read a blog post about someone going geocaching. That sounded like fun, so I ended up creating an account and downloaded the app. Then, we started looking for geocaches in my mom’s area. I won’t tell where these were located; just share the pictures of them. This was our first find. Most of us walked past it, and Little Miss was the only one who spotted it!

We nearly walked into this one.

We searched for about 10 minutes and were about ready to give up when I found this one. It’s the only one I’ve found myself; the children are much better spotters, and move faster, than me.

This one had a lot of items to trade. We didn’t have anything with us to exchange, but Miss Joy had to look through the entire picture book before we left!

This one was for premium members, which we are not, but we managed to find it anyway.

The one near this landmark was also a premium one. We couldn’t find it the first time we tried.

We saw this house just down the road, though! I had forgotten about it. When we still lived in Michigan, our house was just two miles from here. What a mansion!

To find this one, we had to drive down the road to where we got a cell signal, then get the navigation started on the Geocache app, then go back. That worked, and we quickly found it, as well as the next one, in another park around the corner.

A few days later, we went back to the Chief Cobmoosa site, and quickly found the cache. We discovered that we can locate those by using the website on a laptop to pinpoint the location.

We all agreed that geocaching is fun! We haven’t done much of it since returning home, though. One day on the way home from church the boys found a cache, and one of the older boys has stopped en route to or from work to find a few, but that’s all. One of these days, we will do more. There appear to be a lot of caches along the main routes we travel around here, so this would make a great way to take a break.